It’s because of all the players kneeling.

It was just Houston’s year last year.

And the reasoning - fans would lose interest if the players were being paid - is horseshit. The main reason I don’t watch much college football is because I don’t want to watch players get injured while playing for free. 

Kenneth Elzinga is full of shit. The entire rationale for the “student athlete,” playing for love of the game, was invented by the colleges so they wouldn’t have to pay worker’s comp when the “student athletes” got destroyed on the football field. The whole foundation of the NCAA is a scam so colleges could avoid…

what the trial has shown that is surprising to me isn’t what is going on in college, is that the same things are going on in AAU and high school.

Eh, fuck Self. He should have to spend the afterlife waiting behind Charlie Weis and Mark Mangino in the buffet line.

Truly incredible reporting. I’m proud to see how Jalopnik has evolved into a place where I can experience the weirdness of Torchinsky’s mind, but also the sheer brilliance of Ryan Felton on real-life issues.

Well done guys. Great article

Austin-On-Travis!

No...wait...

Austin City Limits.

I was really happy when Liz Phair retweeted the pic I took of her at her show last month but that’s all I’ve got.

This is Ryan Adams, not Bryan Adams.

Counterpoint: Lord Stanley’s Cup belongs to America now, and the more teams south of the Mason-Dixon line that win it the better. Let us instead celebrate the surprising Carolina Hurricanes, currently sitting on top of the Metropolitan.

What kind of a hellscape country do we live in where a WHITE MAN gets fired from his job for calling up escorts from his work phone, then CANNOT IMMEDIATELY get his choice of job afterwards AND THEN must settle for a LESS PRESTIGIOUS job in his chosen field. 

I can only guess it’s a Carolina BBQ thing? Maybe? 

“I think we both know that isn’t going to actually happen.”

It is “everyone,” and that’s the defense’s entire argument. Within a few minutes of Gatto’s opening testimony, Oregon was called out by name as having offered payments to Bowen (I think, though it may have been one of the other players). That brings Nike into the fold, and they did the same with Maryland/Under Armour.…

I’m surprised the officer in the picture wasn’t also on his mobile phone while on the computer, both which of course are illegal in my state but hey, because cops, they’re above all laws, so I guess it’s okay.

Please give more to the owners. They’re not rich enough yet

To be fair, this is what Darren Rovell’s Coke bottle looks like: